The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast with Julie Bjelland , LMFT

Julie Bjelland, LMFT

The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast is a space for deep understanding, validation, and nervous system support for sensitive and neurodivergent people, especially late-identified autistic women. Hosted by Julie Bjelland, LMFT, psychotherapist and founder of the Sensitive and Neurodivergent Community, this podcast explores the internal lived experience of being autistic and highly sensitive in a world that often misunderstands both. Ranked in the top 1.5% of podcasts globally and listened to in over 195 countries, this show reaches a wide and deeply connected community seeking meaningful, affirming insight. Each episode offers compassionate, research-informed guidance on masking, burnout, sensory and nervous system differences, emotional...

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The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast with Julie Bjelland , LMFT

Episodes (226)

Feb 17th How Social Conditioning Teaches Women to Ignore Their Own Needs with Julie Bjelland, LMFT
Jan 8th Women 35–55: Why You Might Feel Like You’re Falling Apart
Dec 4, 2025 There Is Nothing Wrong With You: What Millions of Sensitive and Autistic People Are Discovering Together with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast with Julie Bjelland , LMFT

Feb 17, 2026
24 minutes
22 MB

How Social Conditioning Teaches Women to Ignore Their Own Needs In this powerful and deeply validating episode, Julie explores how social conditioning shapes women’s lives in ways that often go unrecognized. From an early age, many women are taught to be agreeable, accommodating, and easy to be around. Over time, this conditioning can lead to overriding, dismissing, or ignoring their own needs in order to maintain connection and avoid discomfort for others. Julie explains how this pattern becomes automatic, how masking develops as a survival strategy in childhood, and the significant internal co...

The Sensitive and Neurodivergent Podcast with Julie Bjelland , LMFT

How Social Conditioning Teaches Women to Ignore Their Own Needs with Julie Bjelland, LMFT

Julie Bjelland, LMFT

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